The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 20, sentence 30

But if I were as wise as all that I should never be here.

Who acts: I, that · What happens: be, not be

This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 wise	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wise	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 wise	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wise	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 wise	advmod
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	14 here	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 here	det:predet
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 here	nsubj
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 here	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 here	aux
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 here	advmod
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 here	cop
14	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 wise	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I					wise property	tree rules
2	not is	should	that					here property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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